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9 Comments

Sara
August 5, 2014 at 2:32 pm

I ordered this box after seeing the items in the picture and was really hoping for the Rum Diary book, the tote bag, sunglasses and hopefully the water bottle, but no. I did get the tote bag, but I only got 4 items in the box! I did get the tote bag, the beach towel, while huge, is pretty thin. The box of paper straws that are 5 dollars, and an aqua pouch speaker, but I don’t have a smart phone. Highly disappointed, I guess I should’ve saved myself 30 bucks and ordered the book on Amazon.

I ordered 2 of the large mystery boxes with their last free shipping offer and was extremely disappointed. I would expect all the large boxes to have the same approximate value. I saw a lot of reviews that amounted to $275 of stuff I would use, but I got $70 of stuff that I would never use. I love the idea of a mystery box, but it’s not worth the risk of getting another box of nothing I could use.

Honestly, summer time has the worst beauty sub boxes for my taste. I prefer winter metallics, late in the year holiday colors, autumn reds, greens, dark oranges, and browns. I can even work with spring time pastels. I just hate getting a butt load of sunscreen and bright neon colored make up in summer.
Just person preference though :]

Any idea how long these will be available? I ordered the women’s medium and larges mystery boxes last time they were available and was very unhappy with them and that is keeping me from ordering. I even put one in my cart and thought about it but just can’t do it after the disappointment from last time. I think for $40 I would be happier with an extra PS or FFF but I could be wrong, I wonder if anyone will get one before they sell out.